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Justice is ill-suited to grey areas. The rule of law entails that some things are legal and that others are not, and it is the role of judges to distinguish between the two. When individuals come before the courts in cases involving the right to die, clarity is generally the goal of those people. This week there were three such cases but in only one did the courts rule that further clarity was appropriate. In all three, however, the judgment was sound.

Tony Nicklinson, a sufferer of “locked in” syndrome, died naturally last year after failing to persuade courts to